How Can Conflicts Be Resolved in Fair and Just Ways?

How can conflicts be resolved in fair and just ways? SS.1.C.3.1 Explain how decisions can be made or how conflicts might be resolved in fair and just ways.

1 SS.1.C.3.1 Explain how decisions can be made or how conflicts might be resolved in fair and just ways. Correlated Florida Standards (See Full Text on Cover Page)  LAFS.1.SL.1.1, LAFS.1.SL.2.4 Essential Question How can conflicts be resolved in fair and just ways? Learning Goal/Objective  Students will be able to identify ways to resolve conflicts in fair ways. Overview Students will brainstorm, discuss, write and illustrate ways to solve problems in fair ways. Materials  Post-It Notes  We Solve Problems!! handout  I Know How to Solve a Problem Fairly handout Time  15-20 minutes with additional time for extension suggestions Activity Sequence INTRODUCTION/HOOK 1. Hand each student a post-it note. 2. Instruct students to write or draw a situation they have experienced that made them upset on their post-it note. 3. Have students place their post-it note on the board and read some of the situations aloud to the class. ACTIVITY 4. Project the definition of a fair decision. Fair Decision – a decision made where people are treated equally or the same 5. Pose the following questions for discussion: Think about the situation you wrote on the post-it note, how might that situation have been fixed in a fair way? Are there other experiences you remember where a problem was fixed in a fair way? 6. Pass out the We Solve Problems!! handout and explain to students that they will work as a whole class to brainstorm different ways problems can be solved in fair ways. 7. Work as a whole class to complete the handout. Teacher Note: Possible answers could include - walk away, talk it out, apologize, write about it, share, talk to a grown up, count to 10, go on to another activity, or ask person to stop. CLOSURE 8. Pass out the I Know How to Solve a Problem Fairly handout. 9. Instruct students to work independently to illustrate a problem in the “Problem” box and a fair way to solve the problem in the “Solution” box. 10. Have students share out. OPTIONAL EXTENSION SUGGESTIONS 1. Have students write out (and/or illustrate) the steps to solve a problem fairly. 2. Create a cartoon with a conflict resolution theme.

3. Write a paragraph explaining why solving problems in fair ways is important. Name: ______Date:______

3 Name: ______Date:______I Know How to Solve a Problem Fairly PROBLEM SOLUTION